Is 43 dollars a year too much for a continuously developed AAA game?

Status
Thread Closed: Not open for further replies.

Simon853

S
Not when you consider a lot of folks are perfectly happy to pay $60 every year for the latest installment in their EA Sports franchise of choice.
But, it's easy enough to skip any of those. It's not clear if future ED add-ons will depend on those prior. But if they do, no doubt FD will discount the older ones.
 

Alric

A
No, not at all. My main concern with the lack of features has never been what's in right now. Games that are successful in the long term build features over time. But if they can't pay people's wages then the game won't get developed at all. A season pass as they call it guarantees they won't double dip by rushing out two or three incomplete expansions and charging for all of them, while also providing a way to pay for continued development.

People didn't want tons of micro transactions. People didn't want a monthly subscription. People didn't want them to stop developing the game.
Developers can't work for nothing, so pick your poison.
 

PotatoOverdose

PotatoOverdose
Personally, gonna wait and see - the only actual "footage" we have is that of a mako driving over the surface of a grey moon - I already have a game that covers that pretty well. Now, if there's actually interesting content on said moon, maybe it's worth it. We'll just have to wait and see.
 

Kayweg

Kayweg
PotatoOverdose said:
Personally, gonna wait and see - the only actual "footage" we have is that of a mako driving over the surface of a grey moon - I already have a game that covers that pretty well. Now, if there's actually interesting content on said moon, maybe it's worth it. We'll just have to wait and see.
Click to expand...

Hopefully more details become available soon, just more Elite:Lollygagging won't do.
 

Gorr

Gorr
My current calculations with "game price / hours played" just screams - here, take my money!

I don't like the fact that game owners have to pay almost the same as the ones buying the game for the first time, but if that will bring a lot of new players in our universe - I am fine.
 

askavir

askavir
43 bucks a year for Elite is a bargain.

People pay twice that for console games that get finished in a single weekend.
 

h347h

h347h
master_xean said:
No of course it isn't!

At 43 dollars / year I'll be happy to keep paying for cool new stuff.

Good or on ya FD.

if these people don't like your game, no one is putting a gun to their heads and making them support it.
Click to expand...

Not at all. If I were to play WoW for a year. Expansion $40 and a years worth of bundle subscription. 12x12 $144. $184 vs 43... Ill take the 43 please.
 

Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
I just found out that apparently the lifetime subscription may include beta access. Which is super nice since now I can be one of the cool kids. ;)

Assuming I play for 3 more years, the lifetime subscription freezes my monthly access fee at $6/month. If I go more than that, it drops. Yeah, I used to play WoW and this next expansion is the first one I think I will miss (judging from the news, a million or so people feel that way) ...

A AAA-rated game for $6/month beats Starbucks' over-roasted coffee by a large margin.
 

who?

who?
Even if I buy the lifetime expansion, I still will have spent a hell of a lot more on hardware specifically to play ED than I've spent on ED. For me, it's great value. I'd love it cheaper, sure; but if paying ensure big updates like this and the continuation of the ED galaxy, bring it on.

I would like more information though. I'm getting the feeling the initial Horizons release might have fairly basic surface-side gameplay, with it being fleshed out over the season. It'd be nice if we had a better idea what's coming in which release, even if exact dates for each release can't be known yet.
 

OnePercent

OnePercent
I don't think so, there are millions of wow and eve players who have already racked up hundreds of dollars worth in subscriptions.

A 1 time payment of 40 pounds, 50 U.S dollars or 60 Australian dollars is fine especially considering that each expansion is completely different in additional gameplay.

Put that in perspective to call of duty sales where they literally just rehash the same gameplay over and over and still, millions of people buy the game.

Imagine frontier making the same CQC every year (call of duty multiplayer) and asking 60 dollars for it..every year the only difference is that one is a sequel of the previous game - this is what is currently happing with the majority of the gaming market.
 

Tinman

Tinman
Simon853 said:
Not when you consider a lot of folks are perfectly happy to pay $60 every year for the latest installment in their EA Sports franchise of choice.
But, it's easy enough to skip any of those. It's not clear if future ED add-ons will depend on those prior. But if they do, no doubt FD will discount the older ones.
Click to expand...

Season 2 includes everything from Season 1. It's reasonable to assume that the same thing will apply going forward which means that if you by the latest Season (new or upgrading) you will always get everything. So this isn't an issue...which is probably also one of the reasons why they have done it this way.

As you say...it's pretty much like other annual franchises, but with one major exception. If you choose to not upgrade ED you will still keep on playing in the same Galaxy as everyone else and can still meet them. You will even keep on getting updates to your game. So unlike other games it won't get "abandoned" and empty just because other players bought into the latest version and stopped playing the old one.
 
Last edited:

Andromalius

Andromalius
Given the amount and quality of content, yes, I'd say so. People are touting WoW prices all over the place but the content in WoW can't be seriously compared to ED. Would I pay 12€/month to have blizzard-quality updates an development for ED ? Yes.
At that point I'm very happy to have paid for the pass when the price was reasonable, because the current one is absolutely nuts.
 

Ghostickles

G
ED isn't a AAA game. Its barely an A if not a flat B. Why in gods name would I buy an expansion for a game I bought overpriced and don't play?
LOL Good Luck, FD.
 

tiger61378

tiger61378
The current cost is perfectly fine for Horizons...especially when you look at RSI's joke (Star Citizen) which is a glorified tech demo which you can pay upwards of FIFTEEN THOUSAND dollars just to have all the ships available to you. Hmm...I think I'd rather have a working, fun game with lots to see and do that gets major paid content updates yearly than a really pretty hanger with a somewhat functional "flight sim" tacked on, and promises of an FPS that looks to be a bad version of COD, but has been delayed over & over again and has no real time setting for even the alpha stage, much less beta or release (SC is currently in "pre alpha", which means its a tech demo).
 
Status
Thread Closed: Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom